Open Standards NZ Co-signers

The undersigned have all agreed that the New Zealand government should create a level playing field for software by mandating that all software procurement, particularly of commercial-off-the-shelf software, only considers software complying with open standards that are vendor-neutral, royalty-free and unencumbered by patents.

Where no relevant open standard exists, the government should undertake to develop suitable open standards, building on those already available elsewhere.

The goal is for software suppliers to the NZ government to compete to meet government-specified open standards rather than competing to set their own proprietary standard as is currently common practise.

# Name Organisation Comment Submitted
121 Terry Woods 22 Jul 2015 16:45
122 Tony Bray Personal The whole of the NZ government should mandate open standards in all software and digital media. This should include Education, Health, Employment, Law, et al. 25 Jul 2015 11:33
123 Tony Dale University of Canterbury 30 Jul 2015 11:16
124 Traveler Hauptman MechAdept Limited Between the software we use with proprietary formats and those with open formats, we greatly prefer those with open formats. When working with a customer using open formats, we can often find suitable free software to work with the format. This is important for reducing operating costs with one-off projects. For open formats that we use often, we have the option of purchasing software with the set of features that suits our needs best. 22 Jul 2015 11:36
125 Wayne Mackintosh Personal supporter Great initiative! 22 Jul 2015 13:05
126 William Gordon Horizons Regional Council For the sake of Digital Continuity, open standards must become the standard for government information. 28 Jul 2015 11:40
127 Yuri de Groot 22 Jul 2015 21:41